Institute of Chips and AI
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Purdue Material Sciences and Electrical Engineering Building
501 Northwestern Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Agenda
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Student Planning Committee
Yathart Agarwal
Yatharth Agarwal is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University, where his research focuses on developing efficient end-to-end systems that enable intelligence at the edge. His work spans the fields of VLSI, embedded systems, and computer vision, with the goal of advancing high-performance and energy-efficient computing solutions.
Imtiaz Ahmed
Imtiaz Ahmed is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University. He completed his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 2019. He served as a Lecturer at Brac University, Bangladesh from 2019 to 2021 before joining Dr. Gupta's Research Group. His research interest lies in Device Modeling, especially Ferroelectric FETs and Modeling of Neurons.
Yewon Hwang
Yewon Hwang received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Korea, in August 2025. During her undergraduate years, she was mainly interested in hardware accelerator design. She joined Purdue University in Fall 2025, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the guidance of Professor Kaushik Roy. Her primary research interests lie in hardware-software co-design for efficient and secure neural network computing. She enjoys playing tennis and listening to music in her free time.
Sujay Pandit
Sujay Pandit received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Shiv Nadar University (SNU) in 2018. After graduation, he worked at Omnipresent Robot Technologies on the lunar rover navigation module for ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission. He then spent a couple of years working with the Shakti Group at IIT-Madras on the design of a RISCV-based out-of-order execution microprocessor. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD thesis under the guidance of Prof. Anand Raghunathan. His research interests include power estimation for SoCs and high-performance CPU/GPU design.
Zeshu Wang
Zeshu Wang is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he is advised by Prof. Haitong Li. His research focuses on memory-centric computing, monolithic 3D integration, and device-circuit-system co-design, with an emphasis on developing energy-efficient hardware solutions for artificial intelligence applications.